Thursday, June 18, 2015
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical boasts a proficient score and some excellent performances, but the story's point has been blunted and, consequently, its energy sapped
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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Friday, June 5, 2015
Climb Ev'ry Mountain," from The Sound of Music, bores me to metaphorical tears; "You'll Never Walk Alone," from Carousel, moves me to real ones
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:57PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
It's a terrific thriller, with its suspense, along with its wit, played to the limit in Miles Potter's scintillating Stratford production
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:21PM[SHARE]The most striking thing about this play full of conflict is that it has no unsympathetic characters, no evil people: only evil spirits
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
There is an extraordinary freshness about the new Hamlet at Stratford, the best Shakespeare production on the main Festival stage since the last Hamlet at Stratford
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:22PM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
When the Shaw Festival is good, it's very very good: see The Lady from the Sea (and, with a couple of caveats, Sweet Charity). When it's bad, see, or don't, Peter and the Starcatcher
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
What's extraordinary about the Shaw Festival's production is how well it works without the Fosse staging
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
The Shaw Festival's opening production of You Never Can Tell begins as a pain and ends as a delight
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
This, then, is a bedroom farce in which nobody gets any sex and hardly anybody gets any sleep
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:29PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
This Much Ado has been touted as "the Bollywood version" and it does include a lot of singing and dancing, Indian style, though these are hardly the most distinguished parts of the evening
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
David Mamet is famous, or notorious, for writing plays with either no roles for women or bad ones. The second part of the charge isn't altogether fair
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
Like most of Moscovitch's plays, this one is gripping from moment to moment; unlike her best ones, it doesn't make those moments cohere.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
In recent seasons Toronto's independent theatre companies have fashioned a cottage industry of bringing us Shanley plays
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:19PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
Durang's play, a Tony-winner in 2010, arrives in Toronto in a first-rate production, directed by Dean Paul Gibson and presented by David Mirvish by way of the Royal Manitoba Theare Centre, a…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
I don't know what Harper Regan is about but that doesn't stop it from being both interesting and entertaining
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
It's an evening that starts out terrific but gradually runs out of steam, even while remaining steamy.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2015
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Robert Cushman reviews Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Twisted that are both running in Toronto this month
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
The play is a classic in its own country, and over the last forty years or so has begun to establish itself in England
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:45AM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
This week, Toronto welcomed tree plays on momentous topics, all presented with a high level of skill " and all suffering from a lack of focus
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
It was once said " by Peter Ustinov, who was half-Russian himself " that teamwork and Chekhov are incompatible
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
So, there's this medieval thug called Robin Hood and he robs the rich. Period. He's obviously operating on the sensible maxim espoused by thieves of a later generation
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